Tag: 'Abide with me' Beating Retreat ceremony

By Abdul Bari Masoud New Delhi: On Sunday, opposition politicians slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government for excluding Mahatma Gandhi's favourite hymn, "Abide with me," from this year's Beating Retreat event. P Chidambaram, a senior Congress leader, said the government's decision to remove Gandhi's hymn had harmed "thinking and sensitive" people. 'Abide with me,' written in 1847 by Scottish Anglican poet and hymnologist Henry Francis Lyte, had been a part of the Beating Retreat ceremonial since 1950. However, the Indian Army said on Saturday that the hymn would not be performed at...